Leading WSU Strategic Vision Fostering an Excellence-based Culture

AgendaFostering an Excellence-based Culture

Objectives: 1. Understand our roles in supporting an effective cascade of the 2016-2021

Strategic Plan2. Align S/C/Ds with WSU Vision/Mission/Values3. Prepare leaders and individuals to embrace and lead change

Strategic Plan Review15 min

Envisioning a Compelling Future30 min

Values in Action30 min

Our Roles – Making Change Happen20 minToolkit and Support

15 minCommitments and Next Steps

10 min

Total 120 min

Strategic Plan Review

By 2021, “Distinctively Wayne State” will result in a thriving

institution known for academic and research excellence, where

every student has a clear pathway to success and the opportunity

to flourish in a diverse, collaborative and innovative environment.

Through its commitment to research and community

engagement, Wayne State will continue to be recognized as a

leader in Detroit’s revitalization and will grow its reputation for

understanding and addressing urban challenges.

WSU will be a pre-eminent, public, urban

research university known for academic

excellence, success across a diverse

student body and meaningful

engagement in its urban community.

Wayne State’s mission is to create and

advance knowledge, prepare a diverse

student body to thrive, and positively

impact local and global communities.

While our vision and mission show where

we want to go, our values guide us on the

way. They cut across organizational

boundaries, bind us culturally, and

permeate our strategic and tactical

initiatives. They are the defining traits of

the Wayne State community.

Collaboration When we work together, drawing upon various talents and perspectives, we achieve better results.

Integrity We keep our word, live up to our commitments and are accountable to ourselves and each other.

Innovation We are unafraid to try new things and learn by both failure and success.

Excellence We strive for the highest-quality outcomes in everything we do.

Diversity and Inclusion We value all people and understand that their unique experiences, talents and perspectives make us a stronger organization and better people.

Our WSU Values

Strategic Focus Areas

Seven strategic focus areas guided our planning. In each of

these areas, we’ve identified essential goals to achieving the

“Distinctively Wayne State” student experience.

• Student Success

• Teaching Excellence

• Diversity and Inclusion

• Community Engagement

• Research

• Entrepreneurship

• Financial Sustainability and Operational Excellence

Student SuccessStudents are our top priority, and we provide them with the tools and experiences that they need to learn and to succeed. Academic excellence, innovative pedagogies, collaborative and interdisciplinary research, career preparation, global experiences, and deep engagement in cultural diversity within a dynamic urban environment all create a “Distinctively Wayne State” student experience.

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Cultivate a culture of student success

• Create clear academic pathways that support progressive student success

• Increase retention, progress to degree and graduation rates for all students

• Enhance academic and career training for all graduate students

Teaching ExcellenceWe will use proven and innovative, evidence-based, high-impact practices and culturally responsive and reflective pedagogies to increase levels of student engagement and learning outcomes.

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Enhance a culture that values teaching excellence

• Identify and encourage the adoption of best teaching practices and the improved delivery of learning outcomes campus wide through the use of data

• Improve the quality of faculty-student relationships within the classroom and beyond

• Improve graduate student training and mentoring

Diversity and InclusionWe strive to have an inclusive environment where diversity is valued broadly and every person has the opportunity to contribute and succeed. Our rich multicultural experiences reflect the real world and help develop leadership in a global society.

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Leverage our diversity to create an inclusive campus where every group and individual feels valued

• Implement and enhance academic programs focused on cultural, language and global competencies

Community EngagementWe encourage every faculty member, administrator and student to participate in meaningful, sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships with our community. We believe that experiential learning and community service are vital to our academic mission.

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Continue to enhance our leadership in the revitalization of Detroit

• Develop innovative, meaningful, sustainable and mutually beneficial community-based service-learning experiences

• Maintain and enhance the university’s institutional reputation of high-quality community engagement

ResearchWe are committed to ensuring that Wayne State University becomes a world leader in discovery and knowledge application. We will increase strategic, integrative research and nurture the broad ecosystem for scholarly inquiry, discovery, creativity and knowledge application by leveraging our academic strengths, community engagement mission and urban location

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Nurture and expand the research and discovery mission

• Develop the infrastructure and processes necessary to support research, knowledge application and broad programmatic initiatives

• Grow research-based revenue

• Enhance our “Distinctively Wayne State” pipeline of student researchers

• Communicate and expand awareness of excellence in research, discovery and knowledge application

Entrepreneurship

Our university will become a bustling hub of innovation, where new ideas are constantly developed into new ventures; students and faculty collaborate through TechTown Detroit to mentor community, urban, and minority entrepreneurs; and industry leaders and startup CEOs seek innovative resources.

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Create a thriving culture where new ideas and new ventures are consistently developed and rewarded

• Simplify, coordinate and enhance the process of innovation and entrepreneurship

Financial Sustainability & Operational Excellence

We commit to growing revenue and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes in order to provide adequate resources to support the university’s mission.

Our goals for this strategic focus area are:

• Increase enrollment

• Develop a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community

• Diversify and enhance sources of revenue

• Achieve operational excellence in all processes

• Ensure environmental sustainability

To view the complete strategic plan, visitwayne.edu/strategicplan

Envisioning a Compelling FutureToday @ Wayne Activity

Imagine that it is the year 2021, and Today @ Wayne is featuring your group in an article.

1. Individual Work (5 min): Write a brief headline and student/customer quote that you would like to see published as a result of your group’s efforts.

2. Table Teams (10 min): Share at your table and look for common themes/outcomes

3. Identify which Strategic Focus Areas these successes align with?4. Which values were key to achieving goals?5. Select a spokesperson to report out on what they learned (1 headline, quote,

strategic area and value)6. Group Discussion (15 min): Capture thoughts

Student Success

Teaching Excellence

Research

Entrepreneurship

Community Engagement

Financial Sustainability

Values S/C/D Goals & ObjectivesHeadlines, Quotes, Outcomes Strategic Goals

Linking Values to Strategic Goals

Collaboration

Innovation

Diversity & Inclusion

Integrity

Excellence

Fill in Unit goals & objectives

Fill in Unit goals & objectives

Fill in Unit goals & objectives

Diversity & Inclusion

Digging Deeper: Team Activity

Values in Action

1. Table Teams (15 min): Answer questions based on your selected Value2. Why is this Value important to the way our team operates and in our ability to

meet the needs of those we serve?3. What is coming down the pike that will make it especially important to excel in

this value?4. What’s one thing we do well now to live this?5. What would it look like if we weren’t living this Value?6. What would be the impact on our colleagues, community, students?7. What can we do if we notice someone not living the values? 8. Group Discussion (15 min): Capture thoughts

Our Roles – Who is Responsible?

You Can’t Step in the Same River Twice

Our Roles – Working Together to Make Change Happen

Planning & Readiness Communication & Engagement Implement & Sustain Change

• Generate Awareness• Link to Outcomes /Build Case for Change • Commit & Set Direction

• Communicate• Enable & Empower Others to Act• Create Short-term Wins

• Monitor & Adjust; Use Data to Learn• Align Systems & Processes• Embed into Culture – Continue Cycle

Strategic Operational Tactical

Leaders Personalize, Readies self & team Leads Cascade, Supports Action Plans, solicits Monitors activity and outcomesfor change, builds case, aligns team feedback ,Reinforces behaviors that embody Provides data to

team and other Models behavior, shares openly values ,participates in activity, integrates into leaders, process improvements

Determine measures of success team practices, reward & recognition

Individuals Personalize, Readies self for Creates Action Plans, provides feedback Use data to learn and make change, aligns own behavior Recognizes behaviors that embody values,

improvements shares openly participates in activity

Marketing Develops Messaging & Implements Communication StrategyTracks progress

Communication Strategy Supports training effortsReports successes & makes Develops materials

recommendationsHR / OED Develops Learning Strategy Supports communication strategy Tracks progress

Supports Cascade Meetings Supports and/or facilitates sessionsReports successes & makes Supports leader & individual Supports reward & recognition efforts recommendations

development Supports developmentSupports process improvements

Facilitation Guide & Toolkit

For now… For later…

Next Steps & Commitments

1. Schedule Cascade Sessions2. Take Today’s Input Forward

• What will it take?• What does it look like?• How will we track & support?

Commitment is what

transforms a promise into reality

Abraham Lincoln